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In article <1992Jul31.001334.8259@INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA>
lebaron@INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA (Gregory LeBaron) writes:

>Does anyone know if these books are still in print, and if so, how I can
>get in touch with MIT Press? Phone number would be good but not 1-800...


MIT Press is still in business at:
  MIT Press
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cambridge
  Massachusetts     MA 02142
  United States

The telephone numbers I have for them (1989) are

Person  +1 617 253 1584
Fax     +1 617 258 6779

MIT books are heavy and (in the UK) expensive; they tend to be dip-ins
rather than read-throughs.  With that in mind, have a look both at their
Logo series and their AI series.  In the Logo series, I would recommend
`Turtle Geometry' and `Exploring Calculus Discretely' [?].  From the AI
series I would particularly point out `Structure and interpretation of
computer programs'.  Although this is written with examples in Scheme,
much of what it says is also true of Logo.  Parts of it are so well
written that they really have to be read aloud, like poetry.  The only
MIT Logo series book I have been disappointed with was Michael
Friendly's `Advanced Logo' because I had seen all the material in it
presented elsewhere, and I didn't take to his as it were
painting-by-numbers approach. 

-- Ken Johnson



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